Hi, I have a DELL Inspiron 4000 coming with a hot swapable CD-RW and FD. During the installation, I had the CD_RW in the swap bay and the FD attached to the parallel port. When later I removed the FD, a df -k made the shell hang, waiting to reach /dev/fd0. Similar was during shutdown, where it was waiting for fd0. In both cases, after a minute or so, FAT bread failed and the system went on. TO remove this problem, I have changed the /etc/fstab such that /dev/fd0 is not mounted (noauto keyword). However, when I want to use the FD, if I change the swap (during the laptop is down) and boot, and then mount -t vfat /dev/fdo0 /mnt/floppy, the FD is not detected. However, if I remove the noauto keyword in /etc/fstab, it is detected. This is a bit annoying to always change the /etc/fstab file (though I rarely use the FD). However, is there a cleaner way to do? Marc
